Ernest H. Starling Distinguished Lectureship Award

The Starling Award is the most prestigious of the APS Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section awards and is awarded annually to an APS member recognized for exceptional contributions and lifelong dedication to Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis research. The recipient is chosen by the Section as a representative of the best within the discipline. Lecturers present and are active participants at the Experimental Biology meeting. Each year, four of the 12 lecturers give plenary lectures that incorporate the main meeting topic. In the years that sections do not have plenary lectures, the lecturer presents one hour of a featured topic programmed by the section. Each recipient receives a $1,000 honorarium and up to $2,000 to cover travel and per diem expenses incurred during the meeting.

2011
Curt D. Sigmund, PhD“Divergent Mechanism Regulating Fluid Intake and Metabolism by the Brain Renin-Angiotensin System: A Story of Drinking and Donuts”
Professor and Head Roy J. Carver Chair in Hypertension Research
University of Iowa

2010
Kirk Conrad, PhD“Maternal Vasodilation in Pregnancy: The Emerging Role of Relaxin”
Professor and Head Roy J. Carver Chair in Hypertension Research
University of Florida College of Medicine

2007
Pedro Jose, MD, PhD“Salt Sensitive Hypertension, A Problem Of Communication”
Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology and Biophysics
Vice Chair of Pediatric Research
Georgetown University

2006
Thomas Coffman, MD“The Critical Role of the Kidney in Hypertension: Implications for Pathogenesis and Therapy”
James R. Clapp Professor of Medicine
Chief of the Division of Nephrology
Duke University Medical Center.

2005
Giuseppe Bianchi,"The genetic control of renal Na handling in primary hypertension.”
Professor of Renal Medicine
Director of Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Hypertension
University Vita Salute San Raffaele

2004
Christopher Wilcox, MD"Oxidative stress and functional NO deficiency in the kidney: A critical link to hypertension?”
George E. Schreiner Professor of Nephrology
Chief of the Nephrology and Hypertension Division
Georgetown University

2003
Friedrich C. Luft, MD“The Role of Genetic Models in Elucidating Cardiovascular Reflex Regulation.”
Professor of Medicine &Head of the Nephrology and Hypertension Section at the Franz Volhard Clinic,
Chief of the First Clinic for Internal Medicine,
Humboldt University, Berlin

2002
Richard P. Lifton, MD“Genetics, the Kidney and Hypertension.”
Chairman of the Department of Genetics
Professor of Genetics, Internal Medicine, and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University